This is a blog to keep you updated on how my summer internship in Cuiaba, Brasil is going. Be sure to check out the picture slide show on the side bar to see my pictures from this summer! I am excited to see what the Lord is going to do, and hope what I post on here will be a blessing and an encouragement to everyone who reads it!

Friday, June 17, 2011

A New Adventure

Today was a great day! This morning I was able to talk to my mom and we had a great conversation. I am very thankful for my family and how much of an encouragement they are to me! After I finished talking with her I put on my work outfit and headed outside to find that we were going to begin painting the wall today! It looks awesome! I love painting so this was fun for me. We finished painting the main section of the wall and now only have the garage left. Then we will paint a lot of the other parts that already had stucco on them. As you can tell by the picture I am not sure if I got more paint on me or on the wall!?!? lol o well. I had fun!

This afternoon Mr. Duarte and I rode the bus downtown to run some errands. This was my first time on a bus here. What an adventure! On the way downtown the bus was pretty empty which made it very nice. We walked around downtown laughed at some guys on stilts, saw a couple of mimes, and even got some free pop-corn! Then we both got tapioca. This is not pudding like you are probably thinking. . . it is mantioch flower fried with a filling in it. We got tapioca dolce (Sweet tapioca) which had pineapple/sweet & condensed milk in it! MMMM! It was delicious! On the way back the bus was a little fuller, but not as full as some of the other buses I saw. There were some buses where people were hanging out the doors it was so full!

Joshua playing in a ball pit :-)

Tonight I went out with Jessica, Alex, and Joshua. Joshua is so cute. He can say my name now! Well. . . kinda of he says "Danbo" but that is good enough for me! Tonight in the car I was singing the B-I-B-L-E song to him and after I finished he started trying to spell Bible! He got some letters mixed up and added a few in, but he was trying! It is amazing how fast kids pick up on things. We went to the Three Americas mall and ate at a Subway! It was just like a Subway in the USA but not as many choices of subs. I got a club sub and boy was it tasty! Of course I had to get a nice cold coke to wash it down! So concludes my exciting day. Looking forward to another great day tomorrow if the Lord wills! Thanks for reading!

O yeah. . . . Found out one of my good friends got engaged today! Congratulations Donny McMenamin and Mollie Mann! So happy for you guys!